Classic Rock launches The Blues magazine

Jack White, Joe Bonamassa and Walter Trout interviewed

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Buddy Guy is the cover star of issue one of The Blues

A new magazine focussing exclusively on blues and blues rock music has been launched by the team behind Classic Rock magazine. A mix of old and new; cult and mainstream, it celebrates 75 years of great blues music.

Here's what's inside the first issue:

- A newly-written journey through the life of Buddy Guy by Charles Shaar Murray

- Joe Bonamassa talks through his new album, Driving Towards The Daylight

- Jack White discusses his "accidental" solo record, Blunderbuss

- The former Dr Feelgood legend Wilko Johnson in full flow on his blues roots, his glory days - and his new biography Looking Back At Me

- Some extraordinary reflections in words and pictures on the life of the late Etta James

- Walter Trout opens up on his past and talks about his excellent new album, Blues For The Modern Daze

- An introduction to new blues rock'n'soul supergroup Royal Southern Brotherhood

- An in-depth guide to the 20 greatest British Blues albums released between 1960 and 1966

- A definitive Buyer's Guide to the Godfather of Chicago Blues, Muddy Waters